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June
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1736
211 Cap.t Edward Rownd and Mr James Rownd before me the Subscriber and was duely qualified to Execute the within Commission according to the directions of an act of assembly in that Case provided Test Jams Martin The same day was M.r James Martin duly qualified to Execute the said Commission Testis Edwd Rownd Afterwards to witt the fifteenth day of June ann.o Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset at dividing Creek then in Court Sitting Came James Martin Edward Rownd and James Rownd three of the Gent mentioned in the foregoing Commission & made return thereof to the Court here with the following depositions &c By vertue of a preceipt directed by the worshipfull Court of Somerset County dated ye 20th day of march 1735 To us James Martin Edward Rownd James Rownd and Edmond Hough Commisionating and appointing us or any three or two of us to examine Evidences on behalf of a certain Wm Hall and Rob.t Hall of the County af.d in relation to the bounds of a tract of Land called the head of s.t Lawrences shod cause to come before us or any three or two of us all such evidences as should to us or any three or two of us be nominated by the said complainants and that we or any three or two of us should examine them upon their corporal oaths to be by us Administred on the holy Evangelist of Allmighty God in the presence of the said complain.t and Defend.t (if any touching the truth of their knowledge and remembrance or any thing that might relate to the cause af.d In obedience to which precept we James Martin Edward Rownd and James Rownd having been Qualified According to an Act of assembly in such case made and having given due notice met on the af.d land ye 10.th day of June Anno Dom 1736 and in the presence of the said complaints and defend.t appearing came Edward Pointer and Evidence aged about fifty odd years and being sworn as above saith that on the south west side of the abovesaid Land he well remembers there was a Beavour dam and branch The same day came William Pointer an Evidence Aged Sixty Six years or there abouts and being sworn as above saith that the above said Beavour dam is y.e main Beavour dam branch lieing and being on the south west side of said Land and that the said Beavour dam Branch was the branch whereo^n^ the said Wm lived and settled on and afterward sold the said Land to the said Rob.t Hall The same day came Isaac Brittingham aged forty eight years or there abouts and being sworn as above saith that on the north east side of the said Land by the side of a Nother Beavour dam Branch about eight or nine years agon there stood a Hiccory Stump about fifty strides down the said branch from a passage over a Beavour Dam where then was a tann trough and about sixty strides from some cherry trees and farther the (depon.t) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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